Action/Adventure
1. No Easy Way Out by Dayna Lorentz
2. United We Spy by Ally Carter
3. Quarantine: The Loners by Lex Thomas
4. Panic by Lauren Oliver
5. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Historical Fiction
1. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
2. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
3. VIII by H. M. Castor
4. A Death-Struck Year by Makiaa Lucier
5. A Mad, Wicked Folly by Sharon Biggs Waller

Realistic Fiction
1. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
2. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
3. We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
4. An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
5. Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

Paranormal
1. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
2. City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare
3. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
4. Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
5. City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare